Charlee Brodsky is exhibiting two bodies of work at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January 10 - February 23. Both groups of work were done in collaboration with writers, About Face with Jane McCafferty and Reconfigured with Sally Stewart. There will be a closing reception on February 21 from 5:30- 8:00pm.

Studio for Creative Inquiry Fellow and media artist, Noriyuki Fujimura, presented an interactive public art project, Televised Distance at Dominion Plaza on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh from December 30 to January 3. The piece suggested "a potential alternative model of communication technology" and was made possible with assistance from The Times Project, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Sprout Fund, First Night Pittsburgh, Inc., Taylor Arts Group and the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists.

Ayanah Moor has received a $10,000 award from the Pittsburgh Foundation. She was selected as an artist who "produces work of high artistic quality, should have higher visibility in the broader Pittsburgh community and can derive tangible benefit from such an award."

Janet Culbertson (BFA '53) has a solo show in Huntington, New York, that includes 18 works on environmental issues. These works deal with disparate aspects of the landscape, its celebration and its possible end. In December, she received two grants, a New York State Council SOS (Special Opportunities Stipend) grant and a Ludwig Vogelstein grant. The latter funds the framing of her 1975 Monomyth drawings relating to ecofeminism. These drawings will be exhibited in 2003 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Philip Morsberger (BFA '54) has a solo exhibit at Mary Pauline Gallery in Augusta, GA that opened January 10, 2003.

Arthur Ostroff (BFA '56) joined the service after graduation, serving in Korea with frequent trips to Japan. Subsequent travels brought him to Europe where he lived in Amsterdam (where he was the first art director of the European Office of Famous Artists Schools), Brussels (where he was Production Manager for an international publisher of industrial magazines), Rome (where he was Visual Media Chief with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and Prague (where he coordinated the Business Economics School and the Center for Corporate Development for Anglo-American College). Throughout he worked in graphic design, art and illustration, audio visual productions and design management.
Ostroff has exhibited in Belgium, Holland, Italy, England, France, the Czech Republic, Canada and the U.S. His work may be seen at the Hahn Gallery, the Newman Galleries, Studio on Main in Manayunk, and the Art Sales & Rental Gallery at the Philadephia Museum of Art. He has had projects commissioned by the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, The Philadelphia Inquirer and others. Having taught in the public schools and facilitating cross-cultural seminars, he currently runs youth art program at the South Philadelphia Library. He is a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, where he serves on the board, and of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and Artists Equity.

Each year, Artforum invites a number of its contributors (art critics, curators and professionals) to name their personal top ten highlights of the year in art. This year, two Carnegie Mellon art alumni are included in these critics' top picks: John Currin (BFA '84) and Mel Bochner (BFA '62). John Currin has two paintings reproduced in the issue, one on the cover and one in Lisa Liebman's pages where Currin is recognized for his work, among others, in the Cher Peintre, Lieber Maler, Dear Painter exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Mel Bochner is chosen by Cologne based cultural critic, Tom Holert, for his exhibit and accompanying catalogue, Photographs 1966-1969, at the Harvard University Art Museums, which traveled to and is now on exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has work included in Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century, by Ori Soltes, part of the Brandeis University Press Series of American Jewish History, Culture and Life, just published by University Press of New England. One of her Creation Series wood paintings is reproduced in the book. www.upne.com

Lisa Amowitz (BFA '80) received her M.F.A. in Painting from Lehman College in 1998 and has been teaching for seven years at Bronx Community College's Advertising Art and Computer Graphics program. She is now Assistant Professor and will assume the Deputy Chair position in 2003 spring semester. This spring she was awarded a New York Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit commission. Her designs for ten windscreens and window niches will be interpreted in faceted glass and become a permanent installation at a raised subway station in the Bronx.

ROY (BFA '84) and Rick Gribenas, Exhibition Coordinator at the Miller Gallery, have works included in Gestures at the Mattress Factory. Gestures, an exhibition of small site-specific works created by Pittsburgh-based people, opens Saturday, December 21, 2002, and runs through January 26, 2003.

John Currin (BFA '84) was featured in Parkett #65 in fall of 2002. He had a solo exhibit entitled New Work 8: John Currin Drawings at the Aspen Art Museum, June 6 - September 7, 2002. John emerged in the early 1990s along with a wave of other young artists who invigorated figurative art while questioning its conventions. Currin's portraits of women, often placed in unusual narrative situations, respond to the venerable yet troublesome tradition of female representations, both pre- and post-feminism. This exhibition featured roughly 35 of Currin's drawings from 1991 to 2001.

James Shipman, who studied at Carnegie Mellon in 1984 and who has taught here in adjunct positions, is exhibiting recent sculpture at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts through February 23.

Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) will be showing drawings and artists books at an Open Studio on Sunday, January 26th, from 1 to 6 pm at 750 Cass Street in Trenton, NJ. She will also be exhibiting three works in Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers at Rider University's Art Gallery, February 6th - March 6th, 2003 with a reception on Thursday, February 6th, 4 to 7 pm.

Joanna Commanderos (BFA '86), Paul Glabicki (BFA '72), George Magalios (MFA '01) and Adjunct Faculty Cara Tomlinson will exhibit in the 2003 University of Pittsburgh Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition. The opening reception is Thursday, January 16 from 4-6pm. Joanna Commanderos will lecture with Delanie Jenkins on their work on Wednesday, February 12 at noon in the University Art Gallery in the Frick Fine Arts Building.

David French (BFA '87) lives in Colts Neck, NJ. Last September, he exhibited in Art and Soul at Gallery One Main in Highbridge, NJ. His work has been collected by Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, Pittsburgh Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, University of Pittsburgh and the Russell Group of Chicago. He has also shown at BE Gallery and Thompson Park Gallery in New Jersey and at Abel Joseph and Lannon Gallery in Chicago.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) will have a solo exhibit, Rio Vista Is Home, at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, NC this May. Her work is also included in the Slop Art Supermarket circular and Showroom Tour at the Center for Contemporary Arts in St. Louis, MO through February 23 and was in Bad Touch at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago through January 11.

Alison Safford (BFA '88) lives in Jamaica Plain and works in Arlington, Massachusetts where she is a Special Education/Metals Shop teacher at Dearborn Academy. In November 2001, she was a visiting artist at Northwest Pacific College of Art, where she created a video installation Hover. She currently has an installation entitled eros/ion in Rest Room: Privacy and Consciousness at the Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts through the end of February.

Nicole Herz (BFA '89) will be exhibiting her recent paintings from Maine, as well as a selection of her New York City paintings in February, at The College of The Atlanitic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Kurt Shaw (BFA '89) will have an exhibit opening on Saturday, February 1 from 6-9pm at Panza Frame & Gallery, 115 Sedgwick Street, in Pittsburgh. It will run through the month. For more information: (412) 821-0959.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) and Temporary Services will be included in the presentation of Audio Relay, Binder Archives and past project documentation at OVERLOOK Space at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, January 10 - February 8, 2003. www.soex.org

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) is exhibiting January 4 - February 2 in Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, curated by Jeffrey Uslip at White Box Annex and in Nurturing the Now at NURTUREart, a benefit show on January 11, both in New York City. He was also involved in organizing The POST-IT® Show: Contemporary Fine Post-It Note Art at NURTUREart, January 4 through January 25. On Saturday, January 18, he will particpate in a multidisciplinary discussion featuring special guest, Art Fry, inventor of the Post-It Note at 9:15pm after a play at the gallery. http://www.nurtureart.org/mp/pm.html

Anne Lopez Jacobs (BFA '96) was commissioned by the Parkridge Marriott in Colorado to create Two Hundred and Sixty-One Stripes, a 7' x 5' painting.

Nick Fox-Gieg (BFA '99) exhibited his short video Peace Through Strength at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in October 2002, as part of the Polyphonix Festival.

George Magalios (MFA '01) was selected by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts to be Emerging Artist of the Year. An exhibit of his work will be presented in fall of 2003. He is currently teaching sculpture at University of Pittsburgh and Introduction to 3D Design at Robert Morris College.

Terry Young (BFA '01) had a show at the Spinning Plate Lofts Space in Pittsburgh, November 15 - 30. The exhibit was reviewed by Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) in City Paper in late November.

Michael Caputo (BFA '02) will be exhibiting in a group show, Gravy Boat Princess, in Transient's debut exhibition in Chelsea, NYC. Transient is a gallery that uses any available space in the New York City area to promote the work of contemporary artists. The exhibit opens January 10 and runs through February 1 at 133 W 25th Street (7th Floor) bewteen 6th & 7th Ave, Thursday through Saturday, noon to 6pm. For more information, visit: www.transientnyc.com

Glass Birthday Suit: the basics laid bare, the Pittsburgh Glass Center's first Student/Instructor Exhibition opens January 17, 6-9pm and runs through February 15. The exhibit includes works by instructor Michael Mangiafico (BFA '85) and undergraduates Ashley Brickman, Ashley Harwood, Heather Lefeiste, Matteo Orsini and Emily Treat.

Senior, Lara Hoke, is a winner in International Artexpo's 1st Annual Rising Star Contest. Her work was selected from a national competition to be exhibited in a booth at the International Artexpo in New York City, February 27 - March 3, 2003.

Shana Moulton is exhibiting a video art piece, Veriformity in Visceral: images of the internal body, January 11 - February 15, at ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. in Athens, Georgia. The exhibit, curated by ATHICA Director, Lizzie Zucker Saltz , is "a hard-hitting collection of imagery exploring the internal body in a variety of materials and approaches."

Fereshteh Toosi and Senior, Elizabeth Deasy will exhibit together in Knee Deep at Woodland Art Gallery at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, January 17 - 31. The opening reception is Saturday, January 25 at 7pm with a performance at 8pm.

Jacob Ciocci presented new videos through paperrad at the Woodland Art Gallery at Chatham College in Pittsburgh on January 16 in conjunction with a band performance by Neon Hunk.

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